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by Com_gp
2009-08-08 11:41:29
Forum: Terrain / Theater
Topic: Magic Number is: 2.40 km ?
Replies: 40
Views: 45631

Re: Magic Number is: 2.40 km ?

Com_gp wrote: And... could you share FSEarthMasks.ini that has all quality aviable?
Hi, Fixed here, not needed anymore... it was all about changing number of google maps interchange image API version. Now is 39 instead of 36.

Cheers,

Tomás
by Com_gp
2009-08-08 11:30:19
Forum: Terrain / Theater
Topic: Magic Number is: 2.40 km ?
Replies: 40
Views: 45631

Re: Magic Number is: 2.40 km ?

VE and others are worthless - I concur. I think Google Earth is working fine with FSEarth , however there was something I also noticed about the quality of an output. So I have researched this further, found something else and made some "adjustments" to it .... now all quality is available. Glad yo...
by Com_gp
2009-08-08 11:01:48
Forum: Terrain / Theater
Topic: Magic Number is: 2.40 km ?
Replies: 40
Views: 45631

Re: Magic Number is: 2.40 km ?

Instead of "bursting anyone's bubble" in respect to photo real terrain in F4 let me contribute with the link to a tool which may help to harvest those large satellite photos @ Google Earth or MS Virtual Earth . This little gem program is called FSEarth Tiles and can be found here : http://www.fspas...
by Com_gp
2009-08-08 08:11:12
Forum: Theater Tools
Topic: Where can I find ComGP's OTP?
Replies: 11
Views: 14634

Re: Where can I find ComGP's OTP?

I understand. Actually we have sort of three folded "problem" here, kind of. 1) I don't fully understand the tile making possibilities that can be achieved with the code now. 2) It would require lot of understanding on my part to document everything and put them online for download. 3) Debugging, i...
by Com_gp
2009-08-08 08:05:09
Forum: Terrain / Theater
Topic: Magic Number is: 2.40 km ?
Replies: 40
Views: 45631

Re: Magic Number is: 2.40 km ?

"Photo real" terrain is a holy grail for such an immortal simulations as Falcon4 , but current storage and displaying capabilities are preventing from "IT" being a reality --- at least as of yet You are mostly right but... as I said yesterday a photoreallistic terrain is hardly doneable, but not im...
by Com_gp
2009-08-07 20:28:08
Forum: Terrain / Theater
Topic: Magic Number is: 2.40 km ?
Replies: 40
Views: 45631

Re: Magic Number is: 2.40 km ?

Replace-texture texture.zip by the photorealistic textures. It would be like a pack Hi-res (but with all text. Photorealistic) ... A plus or minus 1 per mega texture, it is a texture.zip about 2 gigs, once completed. CATE automatically corrected quickly, and we all quadrants. The project is perfect...
by Com_gp
2009-08-06 21:08:44
Forum: Theater Tools
Topic: Where can I find ComGP's OTP?
Replies: 11
Views: 14634

Re: Where can I find ComGP's OTP?

Hi, I've just seen the email on the Yahoo account and I decided to surf a little bit this forums... and I've just seen this message. About OTP (One Touch Proggie if I remember well...) I made it looooooooooong time ago, if you give me the sources (I don't think I have them anymore, maybe, but I woul...
by Com_gp
2009-08-06 21:07:41
Forum: Terrain / Theater
Topic: Magic Number is: 2.40 km ?
Replies: 40
Views: 45631

Re: Magic Number is: 2.40 km ?

Hey everybody, Just like always I arise from underground and post a couple of messages... I just want to point that I made photoreallitic theater once in the past, I could even maybe search for it and upload it to rapidshare so you all could test it. For those who remember I first tried with Nevada ...
by Com_gp
2007-04-05 16:15:34
Forum: Terrain / Theater
Topic: Tiles pallete is used still?
Replies: 5
Views: 10095

Yeah, sure Ive plans for OTP, so any new thing to be implemented that you need, just tell me. At this time I´m still in the planning state, first of all because I´m leaving on saturday for one week, but I think that remaking the program is not hard. About working with bmp, pcx or dds is independent ...
by Com_gp
2007-04-05 15:44:42
Forum: Terrain / Theater
Topic: Tiles pallete is used still?
Replies: 5
Views: 10095

Mmmmmh, thats great, so much easier to work with tiles now... I was thinking of remaking an old tool for automaking transitions... but this time better made. Another point... If exe edits are possible, couldn´t be possible to add a shader for water and use the alpha channel of the dds textures for t...
by Com_gp
2007-04-05 15:32:07
Forum: Terrain / Theater
Topic: Tiles pallete is used still?
Replies: 5
Views: 10095

Tiles pallete is used still?

A couple of questions, Now that everything (OF and RV) run with dds tiles is possible to work in 24BPP directly or still must work in 8BPP with all tiles from one tileset sharing paletes? Whats is better, editing the pcx tiles and then running texCompress or directly editing the dds tiles? Thanks, C...
by Com_gp
2007-03-31 22:58:20
Forum: Terrain / Theater
Topic: Maybe a photoreallistic theater?
Replies: 3
Views: 5929

Mmmmmmmh, I thought the problem had already been solved because of this post. http://www.pmctactical.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=171296#171296 But it seems that you are right... only 256 sets..., now the point is... how many tiles per set (still 16?) BTW, I had a zip somewhere with 5000 tiles for neva...
by Com_gp
2007-03-31 20:37:52
Forum: Terrain / Theater
Topic: Maybe a photoreallistic theater?
Replies: 3
Views: 5929

Maybe a photoreallistic theater?

Hi everybody, I was just wondering how posible is to make now a photoreallistic theater for Falcon... I installed RV a couple of days ago and I´m amazed of how fast it works and since baldeagle said there is not anymore 4096 limit... could a photoreallistic theater be done? Also I´ve been checking w...
by Com_gp
2007-01-17 21:22:28
Forum: Terrain / Theater
Topic: PMC Tactical is back in Theater development!
Replies: 51
Views: 63447

Com_GP... kinggeorge... wow, the oldschool hardcore crew is back 8) hi SnakeMan, Right now (and the last three years) im not involved with falcon, would like to try the new tile maximum and make a real photoreallistic theater now that there is no 4096 tile maximum (i hope!) but lack of time is the ...
by Com_gp
2007-01-14 19:16:33
Forum: Terrain / Theater
Topic: PMC Tactical is back in Theater development!
Replies: 51
Views: 63447

See BaldEagles post above. He clarified that comment by stating the limit is not on the number of tiles but is normally limited to 256 SETS of tiles. But he has utilities to get around that limit too... :) You are right, I missed that post ;-) Maybe I went to fast thru all of them. Right now im not...
by Com_gp
2007-01-14 19:09:25
Forum: Terrain / Theater
Topic: PMC Tactical is back in Theater development!
Replies: 51
Views: 63447

photorealistic tiles.. bring up another thought.. in original falcon/SP series, IIRC the tile uplimit is 4096. i dunno if AF change this. FF/cobra exe can handle tiles over 4096.. tho nobody ever create so many new tiles. this limitation won't stop you using some exe, just control the total tile# u...
by Com_gp
2004-01-05 17:18:00
Forum: Terrain / Theater
Topic: 4F4 - Angolan Theatre - New Screenies of Terrain Tiles
Replies: 13
Views: 11522

Re: 4F4 - Angolan Theatre - New Screenies of Terrain Tiles

Pretty nice pics, But... just a couple of questions... are you tiling that by hand? that´s just crazy... And... do you remember about the maximum # of tiles that falcon can afford...? You wont be able to get more that 4096 tiles working under falcon which is 4096 square km of terrain... Not much for...
by Com_gp
2003-12-19 12:42:00
Forum: Terrain / Theater
Topic: Where is the CREATOR of this tile of OCEAN?
Replies: 27
Views: 23596

Re: Where is the CREATOR of this tile of OCEAN?

quote:Originally posted by Crossup: At any rate I have tried with both more and less than 4096 but never got conclusive results.. Im pretty sure you didnt try with more than 4096 tiles because the way Tinstall works is this... Level Of Terrain Tile´s Offsets L2 0-4095 L1 4096-8191 L0 8192-12287 So ...
by Com_gp
2003-12-11 11:54:00
Forum: Terrain / Theater
Topic: Need to Know!
Replies: 21
Views: 17859

Re: Need to Know!

quote:Originally posted by Zaggy: But the problem with F4 is still the one tile per evelvation point deal... If we could increase the density of the elevation data and STILL apply the textures unaltered, at 1Km res, it wouldnt be that hard that improve the terrains.... we just create SRTM terrains,...
by Com_gp
2003-12-09 15:15:00
Forum: Terrain / Theater
Topic: Need to Know!
Replies: 21
Views: 17859

Re: Need to Know!

quote:Originally posted by kinggeorge: you mean better terrain texture resolution without better elevation points resolution? Mmmmmmh, no..., I mean more elevation points with same texture resolution, for example using L3 as 1km resolution tiles and getting at L0 125m, this would require 7 levels o...
by Com_gp
2003-12-08 20:33:00
Forum: Terrain / Theater
Topic: Need to Know!
Replies: 21
Views: 17859

Re: Need to Know!

Hi,

Just want to let you know that im working for Falcon capable of admiting more levels of terrain, not only 6, i mean, not only L0,L1,L2,L3,L4,L5 so this way we can have much better resolution, instead 250 meters... without having small tiles like Iceland.

Com_GP
by Com_gp
2003-12-05 09:52:00
Forum: Nevada
Topic: Where is the theater?
Replies: 1
Views: 7396

Re: Where is the theater?

There is no theater to download yet, those links are to the theater of about 1.5 years ago, really old.

Com_GP
by Com_gp
2003-12-01 21:16:00
Forum: Terrain / Theater
Topic: Where is the CREATOR of this tile of OCEAN?
Replies: 27
Views: 23596

Re: Where is the CREATOR of this tile of OCEAN?

quote:Originally posted by Joe Labrada: Also, from my point of view the fotorealistics textures are the futur. Hehehe, I like that view of Madrid, for experiments im doing Nevada (you maybe have already noticed): http://air.frikis.org/com_gp/com_gp01.html And about spainish photoreallistic (its mor...
by Com_gp
2003-12-01 09:47:00
Forum: Terrain / Theater
Topic: Where is the CREATOR of this tile of OCEAN?
Replies: 27
Views: 23596

Re: Where is the CREATOR of this tile of OCEAN?

From my point of view... the terrain its more important to me than the airplanes (although i love new highly detailed models) but almost nobody does anything for the terrain, maybe in a near future we can see terrain shadowing and with a little of luck several terrain levels too. That would make fal...
by Com_gp
2003-11-11 09:59:00
Forum: Terrain / Theater
Topic: Where is the CREATOR of this tile of OCEAN?
Replies: 27
Views: 23596

Re: Where is the CREATOR of this tile of OCEAN?

I believe the first is from Hawai theater and the second one is Tbone's.

Can't say for sure

ComGP
by Com_gp
2003-11-05 11:02:00
Forum: Falcon 4 General
Topic: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)
Replies: 50
Views: 49403

Re: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)

Dont worry CAG, actually there is a few internal beta testers testing it. And... I want to clear this..., I wont drop this project, it maybe takes me ages to take it outthere, but will finish it some day, right now (and I have explained this 100 times) the biggest problem is that the maximum tiles t...
by Com_gp
2003-11-05 10:52:00
Forum: Falcon 4 General
Topic: Widomaker (And Everyone Else...)
Replies: 1
Views: 7194

Re: Widomaker (And Everyone Else...)

Hi Swick, You should make a theater, its pretty of fun and you wont ever have anymore free time ;) If you are planning on making it photoreallistic thats pretty cool, from my point of view the photoreallistic theaters add a inmersion of reallism at medium/high altitude that is pretty cool. I hope yo...
by Com_gp
2003-10-25 16:45:00
Forum: Falcon 4 General
Topic: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)
Replies: 50
Views: 49403

Re: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)

Hi, Here you have an URL with the actual status of Nevada theater, its sad but i must say it will be like this till some things change arround in falcon world, right now it has 4096 tiles as maximum and till this number cant be higher it will be just like this, from my point of view it is just a sha...
by Com_gp
2003-07-15 13:31:00
Forum: Falcon 4 General
Topic: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)
Replies: 50
Views: 49403

Re: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)

quote:Originally posted by CAG: So what is your time frame for sharing this theater? Can't say it for sure, but not soon, I maybe could release it like its right now but im leaving for one month in a couple of days, so I will be off for quite a long time, as too soon if everything goes ok could be ...
by Com_gp
2003-07-12 08:06:00
Forum: Falcon 4 General
Topic: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)
Replies: 50
Views: 49403

Re: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)

Yet waiting for few tools/scripts to make the L, M and T tiles in the installation procedure.

Right now the texture.zip is 170mb ;)

Com_GP
by Com_gp
2003-07-10 15:02:00
Forum: Falcon 4 General
Topic: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)
Replies: 50
Views: 49403

Re: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)

Mhhhhhh, not sure yet, compressing and uploading it somewhere is just easy, and the theater is really cool to fly at the moment, but for something serious..., well, there is not enough RANGE areas for a serious Nevada theater.

Com_GP
by Com_gp
2003-07-10 13:52:00
Forum: Falcon 4 General
Topic: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)
Replies: 50
Views: 49403

Re: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)

Well guys..., no way of adding more than 4096 tiles, Falcon Engine wont afford it, it cant allocate memory for more than that, so..., this is the final result, or at least the area that will be flyable, if I ever release it...

Image

Com_GP
by Com_gp
2003-07-05 14:57:00
Forum: Falcon 4 General
Topic: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)
Replies: 50
Views: 49403

Re: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)

Hi, I continue working on this and the results are really nice at the moment. First of all let you see a couple of shots of me having a small flight. ;) ) is 4096 tiles, so not many more can be added at this moment. For you to see the area that the photoreallistic theater covers at this time is just...
by Com_gp
2003-06-20 07:59:00
Forum: Falcon 4 General
Topic: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)
Replies: 50
Views: 49403

Re: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)

Hi again, I´ve been flying Nevada this last two days with the photoreallistic theater and I just can say one thing..., I´m gonna put all my efforts in getting this out with a good enough resolution (2kmpertile) and enough cover area for the theater, 128x128km (16384km^2) which is good I think. The r...
by Com_gp
2003-06-16 20:11:00
Forum: Falcon 4 General
Topic: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)
Replies: 50
Views: 49403

Re: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)

quote:Originally posted by Jester - 87th Stray Dogs: I was wondering, will you be able to place static range targets etc? That would be superb! From what I know the targets are there, but I dont know how to place them, yet. For sure that we will make all the object placement as reallistic as posibl...
by Com_gp
2003-05-31 06:25:00
Forum: Falcon 4 General
Topic: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)
Replies: 50
Views: 49403

Re: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)

quote:Originally posted by DUMAN:

I am trying to do something similar with in 64x64 size theater, with some areas enhanced with satpics
Remember you cant use more than 4096 tiles in the whole theater ;)

Com_GP
by Com_gp
2003-04-25 20:19:00
Forum: Falcon 4 General
Topic: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)
Replies: 50
Views: 49403

Re: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)

quote:Originally posted by CAG: Why not just resize it? Its based on actual sat imagery. just edit the actual tile to match the runway enough to blend.. Its true that its based on real sat images but it was edited by Janes artist because i have real pictures of nevada and USAF doesnt look like the ...
by Com_gp
2003-04-25 13:26:00
Forum: Falcon 4 General
Topic: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)
Replies: 50
Views: 49403

Re: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)

quote:Originally posted by shaunman: seem cool could you do the same with the other USAF theaters? Sure, only would have to get out all data, this could take me a couple of weekends. Anyways, I think nevada is the best done of all of them, but vietnam and irak are also good options, but remember, t...
by Com_gp
2003-04-24 20:44:00
Forum: Falcon 4 General
Topic: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)
Replies: 50
Views: 49403

Re: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)

X1 also working now for really fartiles, now I can choose detail level so it goes faster.

ComGP
by Com_gp
2003-04-24 16:05:00
Forum: Falcon 4 General
Topic: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)
Replies: 50
Views: 49403

Re: Screens of the new generation of theaters ;)

Hehehe, I see you want it ;) About colours..., I keep saying its ought to my graphic card, I have gamma like 1.60 for running with DX. About Jane's, huhuumm!!!..., i mean, my girlfriend..., I'll see that later, now I have bigger problems, first of all, say that the CTD is a serious problem, if I run...